Efrem Gidey breaks Irish 10km record in Valencia

Cormac Dalton, who was part of the silver-medal-winning Irish team at the European Cross Country last month alongside O’Leary and Dalton, missed out on that after clocking 28:04, while Callum Morgan – who recently helped the Irish U23 team to gold at the Europeans – clocked a big PB of 28:09.

IRISH RECORD: Efrem Gidey broke his own Irish 10km record when clocking 27:39 in Valencia on Sunday morning, the 25-year-old carving four seconds off the mark he ran in the same race last year. Picture: ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy

Efrem Gidey broke his own Irish 10km record when clocking 27:38 in Valencia on Sunday morning, the 25-year-old carving five seconds off the mark he ran in the same race last year.

His 12th-place finish in the Valencia Ibercaja 10km led a slew of fast times among the travelling Irish contingent, with Mullingar’s Jack O’Leary also smashing his PB to finish 18th in 27:41, securing the 10,000m qualifying standard (27:50) for the European Championships in Birmingham in August.